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The Cardinals have made some scouting department changes, adding a extra body to their previous group by hiring Zac Canty — who most recently spent the last two seasons as a pro personnel assistant with the Bears — as the team representative for the National Football Scouting Service, and also bringing in former Dolphins scouting assistant John Richter to scout the northeast region of the country.

The team parted ways with scout Don Corzine.

The team reassigned some current scouts, putting Mike Boni on the near East, Kyle Johnson in the Midwest and Luke Palko in the Southeast. Malik Boyd remains a cross checker for the western half of the country, Chris Culmer remains in the West and Dru Grigson as a cross checker for the eastern half of the country.

Also officially announced was the addition of former running back Josh Scobey as a scouting assistant, although Scobey has been on board for a while now.

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Darren, is this an expansion of the scouting staff? Tough to add up all the comings and goings from this, but it seems like at least a net +2 if you include Licht. Thought I’d heard at one point that the Cards had one of the smaller scouting staffs in the NFL, is this an effort to ramp up a little or just common turnover?

Too bad we don’t get to meet and know these guys in a profile – it’s hard enough to get with the assistant coaches. Everything is down to results don’t lie – which for us now is pretty good drafting of talent – we’ve kept a high percentage of our picks & they’ve turned into productive players. There’s also respect around the league for the Cards roster as Korey Lindsey for example just got picked up. Got to say ‘TrustinFitz’ that you’re missing a lot to say Heap is washed up when he’s the TE that’s always open – or that King is only a blocker when his pass catching is the big surprise at the position – Jim Dray is growing into a solid blocker who was drafted for his catching ability. I don’t get it.

I need a better link than Rotoworld. They don’t report. They read. I’ve talked to team trainers and he’s on track to be back in camp. I find it hard to believe someone said that. And you should know better than to not include a link.

As I said before, Jason Licht is a great addition to the team..along with the other scouts..Other teams around the league now have to pay attention to this up and coming team!!!!! The draft was super, and I believe we will beat the Niners for the division, AND HOPEFULLY TO THE SUPER BOWL, AND A WIN…. GO CARDS!!!!!

Dave: You are correct about Jim Dray. However his story coming out of Stanford described a diferent journey. When he started in college he was a receiving tight end but then got hurt and was out for almost a year with a leg injury so with that limitation he had to start over and concentrate on his blocking. Maybe Darren can help on this player’s history.